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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1904 | Prominent Young Countess. Epecial Correspondence. HEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, | t* HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT | GARDEN, LONDON, June 2.—Here is | & new and unusually attractive portrait which has just been taken of the | young Countess of Dalhousie. It is | now predicted that her ladyship, who | is one of the intimate friends of the | Princess of Wales, will take her place | eventually as one of the greatest Lon- | don hostess ntieth century. ¥ s of the t i | the Queen. , custom for American society women | inLondon to compete one with another | years worked together, | everything to open the purse strings of Craven, Lady Arthur Butler, Mrs. George Vanderbilt, the Hon. Mrs. Ram- say, Mrs. Hall Walker, Mrs. Ridgeley Carter, Mrs. Lorillard and Mrs. Harold Baring. ] And thereby hangs a tale regarding | | these Anglo-American hostesses and Hitherto it has been the | in works of charity. Mrs. Ronalds and Mrs. Arthur Paget have, of course, for but as fresh Amerjcan women found their way into English society each of the new arri- vals In her turn commenced a small | charitable campaign of her own. The | 1 ! Duchess of Marlborough was especially | noticeable in this respect. She desired | to be a charitable Institution in herself. | The Queen, when she was Princess of | Wales, anxious to do anything and‘ of charitably disposed persons, never | refused to lend her patronage to any scheme promoted’ or organized by re- sponsible women. Since she has be- | come Queen she has not the time to devote to Individual effort and I un-' derstand that her Majesty informed Mrs. Ronalds, who passed the word along, that she would be glad if the American ladies would Join forces wherever possible. The result is that fn most cases in future American women will work collectively so far as charitable undertakings are concerned. ' P | | F DALHOUSIE, EAT *LONDON WHO HOSTESSES RTRAIT OF IHE PRINCESS OF WALES' TIMATE FRIEND., THE | D TO BECOME ONE OF 1S EXPEC TWENTIETH CENTURY. oF THE Considering the Countess’ personality ber husband's great wealth, this seems extremely likely, especially when the Prince of Wales | succeeds to the throne and the Princess | becomes England’s Queen. Lady Dal- housie, who is one of last year’s brides, | is the youngest daughter of Lord and | Lady Ancaster, and before her mar- | riage was known as Lady Mary Wii- loughby, a name made historic by the | first holder of the title, who was one ©f the greatest soldiers of that war- | rior King, Edward I. To good looks lady Dalhousie unites a winning and | eympathetic p onality, and has Jong | been active in many charitable works | which engage much of her mother's attention. Lord Dalhousie owns about | 138,000 acres in Scotland, a couple of | castles, Erechin and Dalhousie, and an- | other stately residence, Panmure House, in Forfarshire. He is a young man—not yet quite 26 vears old—but has shown that he possesses the mar- tial spirit of his ancestors, having served In the South African war as a second lieutenant of the Scots Guards. It is expected that he and the Countess ‘will entertain the Prince and Princess of Wales this summer at one or the other of their castles. American Charity-in London. LONDON, June 21.—When the tele- graphic dispatches come 1n describing the charity bazaar which is to be opened to-day in London and continue three days in aid of the Victoria Hos- pital for Children, there may be some surprise to see how many of the fal American members of the smart set ®re connected with it. A Those who already have promised their services include Mrs. Choate, the Marchioness of Dufferin, Baroness Al- fred von Oppenheim, Princess Hatz- felat, Lady Naylor Leyland, Lady Cheylesmore, Mrs. Hunsiker, fascinating Mrs. gt The coming bazaar in which so many of them are interested will be under the patronage of her Majesty and all | the ladies of the royal family in or near London will be present. As Home Folks See Her. When kindergarten days were o'er, They flocked her lisping voice to hear In childish “piece.” They never saw Her do so well, “the little dearl!” The grammar school she conquered next; She spoke of glory, “dropped a tear;" Her lisp was gone, advan: But gtill they cried, “The little d And when—a high school graduate, he read an cssay, “Woman's Sphere,” Regardless of her estate. Again they murmured, “Little dear!" 8o, when to-day she makes het bid For fame with senjor thesis. clear, | Her folks will say, “How well she d We knew she would, the little dear!” —Puck. Royalty in Captivity. France detains as prisoners of state in Algeria both the Emperor of Annam and the Queen of Madagascar, while in Martinique she keeps imprisoned the | King of Dahomey. King Prempeh ot! Ashanti, along with his numerous wives, the Queen mother and his chil- | dren are prisoners of Great Britain on | the Seychelles Islands. The savage King of Benin has taken the place of the great Napoleon as an- other of England's royal captives on the island of St. Helena, and in addi- tion to these two African potentates Great Britain has several Indian rulers under detention since the loss of their thrones on the ground of misconduct. They are all well treated, and, in fact, except for the loss of liberty and the sense of restraint the lot of royal pris- oners, be they white or colored, is by no means unpleasant. True, they are behind bars. But then the bars are able possession of the Miners’ Federation.” A search of the constitution and laws of Colorado fails to reveal | any process by which judicial protection could be ex- | the court, of which he is a member, without s { should have been done by the Governor or the ( { ment under the circ | crime, and that if | every non-union man would be by this time murdered | | the peaceable possession of the strikers, | as they dictated or not at all. | ernor Altgeld protested in vain. ! the moral part of every constitution and every statute: | except for the public safety. | stead of decrying what he did | evil results. THE. SAN-FRANCISCO. CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Pro]_;rietot o s ow s o vos Address Afl Con}mmicatim to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Seeeetsateiiiiieiicieiisieisneses saeneeressss . Third and Market Streets, S. F. ceeessamianas -JULY 7, 1904 JUSTICE STEELE'S DISSENT. THURSDAY USTICE STEELE of the Colorado Supreme Court J dissents from the rest of the court in its opinion sustaining Governor Peabody in the measures ne- cessary to make life and property safe ir the mining dis- tricts of that State. Justice Steele denies the deposit of authority in the Governor to restore order by executive action. In his opinion he says: ‘“If the present Executive is the sole judge of the conditions which can call into action the military power of the Government and can exercise all means necessary to effectually abate the conditions, and the judicial department cannot inquire into the legality of his acts, the next Governor may, by his ukase, exer- cise the same arbitrary power. If the military may de- port the miners this year it can deport the farmers next year, and we shall depend for our liberty not upon the constitution, but upon the grace and favor of the Gov- ernor and his military subordinates.” B The op tone and balance. Tt fails urse the peopie of the mining district had who were deprived of all their rights under the constitution, not by the Governor, but by the secret councils of the inner circle of the Miners’ Federation. They controlled the legal machinery of local govern- ment, and thereby held the constitution and the law in ] to state what rec suspension.. Not only was their punishment impossible by the local government, but their restraint was also im- possible. Every writ known to the judicial processes for ccting life and property and restraining crime was a When an attack was made upon a mining property there and non-union miners and the owners were ex- pelled and the owners appealed to the Governor for stection an officer of the law telegraphed him that his action was unnecessary, for the mine was “in the peace- tended to the owners of that property, dispossessed, and their workingmen evicted and deported under the eye oi the officers of the law, who were accessories to the crime by making 110 effort to prevent it. Turning phrasecology against himself, the Miners’ Federation, having immunity to take possession of the property of others and to deport a hundred work- | mngmen, wound and maim them and forbid their return, his own all the people in that district depended for their liberty ition, but upon the grace and favor not upon the con of the Miners’ I sight another organization, equally powerful and equally deration. With no judicial remedy 7 - criminal, might next’proceed to take possession of the ranches at Greeley, or on Clear Creek, or at Rocky Ford, and deport the ranchers, and having control of the local government cc do so with as much impunity as the Miners” Federation enjoyed til the Governor took a | hand in the proccedings. It is a rule of law and logic that a proposition cannot be negatived e rule is violated by Justic of the Governor and repuc xcept by g bstitute proposition. This Steel He attacks the a liates the majority opinion of tion what zovern mstances as they existed in the law- less counties of the He also ignor Governor too e. nother element in the situation. The in i sdiction the existence of certain facts of public knowledge. e could not create those facts. ‘hey were the work of criminals whom the | courts could not reach by reason of the failure of local | government. Th preme Court surc could not reach it, for it has only appellate jurisdiction. Justice 'Steele does not- say, but probably thinks, that the Gov- ernor should have waited until the local authorities called on | to protect life and property and restore | constitutional rig in their jurisdiction. But | Justice knows also that the local authorities were them- of the disorder and Governor had waited hts the | wit selves a part of the lawlessness, the for them or deported and every mine in the district would be to be worked The course of the Governor does not depend on the single precedent the military deportation of the Nauvoo Mormons by Governor Ford. President Cleve- land, mindful of his oath that the laws of the United States be impartially enforced, sent the regulars to Chi- cago and used them in California to suppress in 1894 the same conditions that have made riot in Colorado. The President restored order. Governor Peabody took ap oath to faithfully en- force the laws of Colorado. There is a maxim that is of Gov- “The public safety is the supreme law.” The Justice supposes a‘case in which another Governor may depori farmers willfully. The constitution pro- vides punishment for a Governor by impeachment if he With the right of im- peachment to restrain him no Governor will intervetie Justice Steele’s opinion would have been respectable, even if untenable, if he had pointed out what the Governor should have done in- exercise power without reason. The National Prohibition party has nominated Swallow for the high office of President of the United States. It makes us all glad to learn after all that there is one swal- low our prohibition friends will take without a fear of There is no evasion of the fact, however, that most Amc'rican voters will not be as sympathetically inclined. A deaux, reports that French methods of packing prunes are so much superior to those of our packers that the French can import California prunes, repack them and send them back to this country, paying duty as if they were French prunes, and sell them in our markets, perhaps in California itself, at prices suffi- ciently high to yield a profit after defraying all the ex- penses entailed by the repacking and the double trans- portation across the ocean. A statement of that kind desetves more than passing attention. It shows that however proud we may be of our orchards we have no reason to be groud of our methods of handling the crops. How &pletcly the French surpass us in that respect is shown by the Con- sul’s statement. Writing from Bordeaux he says: “In 1903, for instance, there were almost no prunes raised in thig region—probably not one-twentieth of the normal crop. The deficit was supplied by the importa- tion of prunes grown in California and Oregon. This fact I know from having been required to make in- A LESSON IN PRUNES. LBION W. TOURGEE. American Consul at Bor- | afterward to give testimony in litigation resulting from | gatesappropriations we get the measure of the cost of all spections of the condition of such importations and controversies over the quality and salable character of such prunes. Though the prune crop of this region was | so small as to be almost negligible, the quantity in the markets of the world not being large enough, in fact, to supply the home demand, the export of French prunes was not materially lessened. I have been unable to get any information that any were shipped as ‘California pruncs.’ None passing through this' consulate was in- voiced as such.” Thus it appears that France holds foremost place in the world’s market for prunes, not because she pro- duces more or better prunes than California, but. be- cause her packers and merchants know better how to market them. As a matter of fact California deals with her fruit in much the same way the South used to deal with cotton; producing it in abundance but selling it cheaply as raw material for others to make a profit from. The South has learned her lesson and is now rapidly be- coming the manufacfurer of her cotton crop. California should imitate her example. There is 1o reason what- ever why prunes grown in Santa Clara County should be shipped to Bordeaux to be packed in order to command good prices in the markets of San Francisco. The Board of Health has found it necessary to reduce | | the number of patients in the City and County Hospi- | tal and to weed eut many that have usurped public ser- | vice to the exclusion of more deserving people. The | board might also, with considerable advantage to the un- fortunates in the institution, secuge attendants compe- | tent to prevent violence and murder in the place. Re-! cent events plead eloquently for such a reform. I of the spell binder is heard in the land and also the | tap-tap-tapping of the party platform-maker, busy at his work, it is well to take a few fore and back sights. The favorite themé of the politician in campaigns is the enormous cost of government. Mr. John. Sharp Williams, the Democratic floor leader in the House, is brightly gifted as a manipulator of figures to prove that | we are the most tax-ridden people on the earth. His | voice is raised to denounce the extravagance of the Re- publican party and his picture of the woes of the people is enough to make even a tax collector weep. His method of promoting the interests of his party does not promote the welfare of his country, nor does it do jus- | tice to republican institutions. Surely if this, the| greatest of the republics, is a failure and visits upon its THE COST OF GOVERNMENT. N these days of political oratory and while the voice citizens the several forms of oppression, repression and | depression charged against it by Mr. Williams, the hi: .| tory of the United States is a warning to the world to | avoid republican institutions, and a loud cry to adver- | tise the fact that the Goddess of Liberty is a brazen | huzzy. Nk It is aliways lamentable when the emergencies of a | party compel a resort to tactics that blackwash the | If all that is said about our Government and its cost is true we are suffering greater oppression than ! any other people and bear it with more ox-like patience than any. Fortunately these misrepresentations of the | results of more than a century of free government are not true, nor in the nature of things can they ever be true. country. The cost of the Federal Government has been dis- | cussed since the constitution was adopted in conven- tion, and the specter of a central government, costing the people dearly and rendering no equivalent service. was invoked to prevent the formation of the Union in 1780. | But the effort failed then and though often repeated it has not succeeded in separating the trust and affection of the people from the Federal Government, nor destroyed | their reliance upon it as the source of order and law and protection for the institutions of liberty. The money of the people paid in support of the Federal Government all | has to be appropriated by Congress, and in the aggre- | that the Federal Government does. The attack of Mr. Williams and the peculiar people | whom he leads is made upon what they call the “Billion- | dollar Congresses” of the Republican party. Each Congress has a life of two years and it must make the necessary appropriations to carry on the Government | for two fiscal years. The reproachful term had its or- igin when the expenses of the Federal Government rose | to a billion dollars for two years or $500,000,000 per year. Looked at in the Jump it seems an enormous sum. Mr. Williams is fond of figuring it down to so much per day, per hour and per minute to make people groan and flinch from their wrung withers. That, however, is not the proper way to m®asure the cost of a Government. It is chosen because it makes | cach individual listener feel that he is paying the whole of it. All statisticians, economists and publicists esti- | mate the cost of government by its cost per capita. The cost of our Federal Government is just $7.07 per capita per year. That is what each American pays for what he gets from his country. It amounts to sixty-six and | seven-twelfths cents a month, sixteen cents a week, and | a fraction over two cents a day. The sadly oppressed American citizen for two cents a day gets the service of the whole Federal Government. In cost there are only two fovernments cheaper than ours, India and China, and when compared with ours in respect to what they do for the money they cost they are not in our class at all. The reader whose attention is arrested by this article has at his service to-day the whole army and navy, every Federal court, the Presi- | dent and his Cabinet, every Foreign Minister and Con- sul, the Congress of the United States and all and every power of the Government, for only two cents. . The picture is not fanciful; it is real. If an Ameri- can at home or abroad require the service of his Gov- ernment, for himself alone, one day, it costs him two cents for the use of every branch of the Government and every part of every branch that his need may require. Tt is well to keep this in mind when we are told the Go vernment oppresses us through its cost. Our Gov- ernment is equal to the best ever enjoyed by man, and its economy is excelled only by China and India. San ‘Francisco is suffering at present from a decidedly uncomfortable revival of the “hold-up” industry. The knights of the ask and bludgeon are playing havoc with belated and bibulous citizens, and lectures on tem- perance and early hours seem not to have the effect de- sired. The time is opportune for the police to begin a house-cleaning and rid the town of its disturbers. We have distinguished guests coming shortly in the Knights Templar and must be able at least to guarantee or- dinary safety. 3 | tion, | If anybod H Lucid Explanations. In a wreck report recently filed in the Custom House by the captain of a wrecked vessel, the captain truthful- ly gave the cause of the mishap thus: “Vessel got too close to tfe rocks.” Another report in the case of a ship that drifted ashore at Redondo an- swers the question as to the locality in this manner: “That portion appro- priately termed ‘Hell's Half Acre.”" Ancther vessel was reported to have stranded “about one mile west of Point no Point.” In another instance in the case of the loss of a member of the crew, the cause is given as “Got foul of For sail sheet,” and In stating in detail the measures taken to avoid casualty the answer reads: “Was notifi to get out of Way and Stand Clear,” and n reply to the question, “By whom and to what extent assistance was rendered,” this explanation was made: “Boats wher Lowered and Ship Stopt in about two menuts Boat stod by the spot wher the man fal about twenty menuts but noting of the man was seen.” A very frequent answer to the In- terrogation, “State in detall measures taken to avold, casualty,” 1s “All pre- cautions possible.” An inspector examining a candidate for a mate’s license asked this ques- “Suppose you had a schooner loaded with ceal ofl in the hold and with lumber on deck and she took fire, what would you do?” “I'd throw the lumber overboard so that it might float ashore and I'd scuttle the ship to put out the fire,” replied the man. “You wouid, would you?” thundered the inspector, with all the severity of a bucko mate. “Yes, sir,” meekly replied the candi- date. “Hum, hum,” muttered the Inspector, “you might do a darned sight worse.” New York Law Wakes Muse. — ) EAT HOG" MUST | LAW AND MOVE — HOG. You've no right to the end seat; Hunch over; | You cannot sit next to the street; funch over. | No matter where you want to sit, | And there’'s nobody holding it. You mustn’t sit* here, not a bit; Hunch over. wapts your place, Unich over. There is no recourse in the case, Hunch over. No matter though you pay your fare. No matter though you kick and swear, You've simply got to move from there; Hunch over. The law commands—you've got to go; Hunch over. The Aldermen have made it so; Hunch over. You cannot bar the way and clog The end seat like a buffer log; Somebody else must be the hog; Hunch over. —New York Sun. Innocent Smugglers. The slabs were empty and business was dull one Saturday night in the Morgue, and Deputy Coroner Charles Meehan grew reminiscent. “I'll never forget how near I was to getting into serious trouble without | having the slightest suspicion of it.,” he said, as the humorous crows’ feet at the corners of his eyes opened and closed like fans. “It was some years ago, and I and my chum, Bill Smith, were out of work, business being duil in the plumbing line. Well, we took a rowboat along Meiggs wharf one aft- ernoon just to kill time, when Bill sees a lot of things like cocoanuts a-floatin' on the water. He sticks out his oar and he pulls in half a dozen. They were strung together, just like beads, and we cut open one of the cocoanuts to see what was inside of them, and we dug out a little square tin with a Chinese label on it, and when we open it we find a lot of black stuff that smells like opium. - “‘They must have floated in from some shipwreck,” says Bill, and we goes after the rest of the cocoanuts that were floating around till we got all in sight and fills up the bottom of the boat with them. Well, we judges that there must be $40 or $50 worth of opium in the load. Instead of cocoanuts, we find that the tins had been wrapped in papers full of Chinese characters, so that they'd float in case of shipwreck. “So we takes the stuff to the whart and packs it to a vacant house on Ore- gon street,and puts it under the front steps. Then we buy a couple of pack- ing bokes, dumps the nuts into them and*puts them under the steps again. ‘We take a can as a sample and go up to Chinatown, and they direct us to a Chink, who examines the stuff and tells us he'll buy, all we have of it if we | | In Germany, now know this. TOWN — - | bring it to his store. Well, we hire an | express wagon, put the boxes on board, sit up on the seat with the driver in broad daylight and ride past the Cus- tom-house into Chinatown. I had no idea that the stuff was smuggled and was thrown overboard to be picked up by somebody on watch, or I wouldn't have been on that wagon for $500. Well, | to cut a long story short, how much do you think the Chinaman offered us? You could have knocked me down with | & straw. He says, ‘I give you $1750 for the lot. Not worth any more than that’ And he gave us the money in twenty-dollar gold pleces.” “I suppose you invested the money,” suggested one of his hearers. “Invested? Well, that's what you call it. We didn't do a lick of work for a year. But we'd 'a’ gone to the pen if the customs officers had caught on that wagon. They'd "a’ had us dead in the door, and we as innocént as babies.” Our National Song. What is the American national song? Ask an Englishman, and he won't | agree there is such a thing—unless, | perhaps, “Yankee Doodle,” which, after all, he will be sure to add, is only a Mother Coose jingle. Few Americans | need longer be told “My Country, of Thee,” is only “God Save the King" made over for American uses—even the | cats in this country, as Mark Twain {said of “Du Bist Wie Eine Blume" An Eng- | lishman will say, however, that of ail the absurd and grotesque adaptations, that of “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean,” from the British navy song, is the worst. That there undoubtedly are Americans who think “Three Cheers for the Red, White and Blue” was ex- pressly written in praise of American Stars and Stripes is a little strange, and shows that the words have been sung hout much thought as to their meaning; with no more idea, In fact, of the significance of the words than the little girl who wrote: “My country, tissuf the, | Sweet land uv libber tea.” Substitute “Old England, the gem f the ocean,” and that means some- | thing—so the Englishman will say. But the words as applied to America are | almost meaningl “Thy mandates n ke heroes assemble | When Liberty's form stands in view; | | Thy banners make tyrrany tremble, When borne by the red, white an blue.” The banners referring to the former three divisions of the British navy, re- spectfully represented by the red, the [white and the blue. | | | | Answers to Queries. RED ANTS—A. S, City. There are | insect powders that will destroy ants; | borax placed where they congregate | | arives them away; they will run away | from green wormwood leaves placed | near their hiding places. An effective way of killing them is to smear a plate | with clear lard and place it near where they abound. They are very fond of lard and will go for it in the plate and pay the penalty of thelr voracity by | being caught so they cannot escape. When a plate is covered with ants hold it over an open fire until the lard And | captured ants fall into the fire; then | reset the plate. Another method is to fill 2 sponge with fine sugar and, when the cells are full, pour beoiling water on the sponge and scald the insects to | death. } i i MARRIAGE—J. B. B, City. It has been held that if “a man and woman | live together in a State for four years | under circumstances which in that | State would be held to be & common | law marriage, and under the laws of that State a divorce would have to be obtained before either could marry.” such living together constitutes a legal marriage, and though the parties have, since residing in that State, lived apart for three years, the marriage is still in force. If either desired to marry in this State a divorce would have to be obtained. AZORES ISLANDS—M. S. S., Gilroy, Cal. The foliowing-named books, to be procured through any first-class book- seller, are descriptive of the Azores Isi- ands and the inhabitants: “Azores or Western Islands,” by W. F. Walker; “Among the Azores,” by L. H. Weeks, and “Voyage of the Earl of Cumber- land to the Azores,” by E. Wright, FOREIGN DECORATIONS—Soldler, City. Under the regulations of the Na- tional Guard of California, contained in special orders under date of July 18, 1903, “no decoration received from a | foreign government shall be worn by officers or men while on duty with State troops.” GRAMMAR SCHOOLS—J. A., City. For such information as you desire about percentage in grammar schools in this city address a letter of inquiry to the City and County Superintendent of Public Schools, City Hall. DENTISTRY—H. I N, City. The practice of dentistry in the United States is governed by the laws of each State as to license or diploma. e G —— Townsend's California Glace fruits In artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* x ————— Good specs, lasses, B . oyt.‘ 15¢c-50e. 79 it